On June 10, 2024, Passion Driven Leadership celebrated two schools in the Orange Township School District with the designation of being Passion Driven Schools. (see links below)

PDL - Orange Recap June 2024.mp4

Passion Driven Schools - Dr. Fitzhugh Interview .mov

This means that they have decided to make Intentional Self-Care a priority for the adults in schools and completed our two-year process.

• Previous interview with Tyrone here.
• We work in a system that is broken by design.
• Accountable vs. Responsible
• We work at the point of exhaustion
• EAP, too little too late.
• Starts with leadership.
• Process has six frames, SEL, instructional, teacher, parent involvement, school review
• Data driven vs. data informed
• Dashboard for SEL
• Wellness & culture & climate surveys that teachers take on a regular basis.
• The value of the psychometric analysis is that it helps people see themselves and who their teammates are.
• Teachers came to work happier and more productive, fewer sick days, ownership.
• Students are more relaxed because of the impact of the teacher attitudes and perspectives.
• Passion Driven Schools for adults.
• Parent involvement - helping parents understand their kids better.
• Passion-Driven Leadership web site.

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Dr. Tyrone D. Burton is an author, speaker, and Founder of Passion Driven Leadership. With over 40 years’ experience in education Dr. Burton is recognized and sought after as a proven leader in education. He has served as a Distinguished Principal, mentoring other Principals in his proud state of Louisiana. He has worked as a School Turnaround Specialist, successfully helping, and supporting Principals turn around schools in Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Cayman Island and Connecticut. He has served as an adjunct professor teaching aspiring principals to lead. He has been featured on notable podcast such as, Courtney Bowden, The Transformative Principal and Leading Lane hosted by award winning Principal Adam Lane. He is a regular featured speaker at Alabama`s MEGA Conference. He has authored two books, More Than a Notion, A Journey in Educational Leadership in the Age of Accountability and The Reframing of American Education, A Framework for Understanding American Education Post COVID-19. Both books are used at the University level to train educational leaders. His company Passion Driven Leadership was awarded a New Schools Venture Fund Grant, which he used to pilot his program to help educators lead lives filled with “Intentional Self-Care”! He has helped hundreds of educators to restore and revitalize their emotional health and wellbeing. His vision to create a community of educators who become emotionally literate and emotionally Intelligent through the development of human capital. His mission is to help educators realize and recognize that “Intentional Self-Care” is not selfish!

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